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> > Apollo did it *much* better, and it's beginning to sound like LDAP will 
> > inherit the mantle.
> 
> Not if it can't do transactions.
...
> Really, LDAP is not mature enough at this point, except for embedded
> systems where you can guarantee the behaviour of the back end, and
> the back end is either not write-cached, or understands the
> significance of container objects implicit by hierarchy.

What you appear to be saying is that you cannot perform complex atomic
transactions, nor are transactions guaranteed to be serialised.  

There, I did it in two lines.  8)

mike